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New Growth

IN THE BEGINNING - THE START

HOW IT STARTED

Wholly Yours Ministries is led by Reverend Paul Havens and his wife Stephanie and is headquartered in Abingdon, Virginia in the United States.  It was started when Paul embarked upon a journey in late December 2018 to get healthy after getting indigestion and heartburn brought on by overeating Christmas candy.  Of course, this was not the first time this happened, and kept recurring.  As God often does, He spoke to Paul’s inner spirit and revealed to him that his body’s bio-feedback mechanism was working and was letting him know something was wrong and he needed to figure out what it was. So, taking matters into his own hands he began researching trying to figure out what his body was telling him.  After watching what seemed like hundreds of food documentaries and countless hours of research he determined his condition was brought on by eating too much fructose. 

 

This led him to make a total dietary change and he went from eating moon pies and honey buns to all-natural, unprocessed food and no sugar.  Much to his surprise, he lost thirteen pounds in two weeks and his indigestion and heartburn totally disappeared.  In addition to that, his total cholesterol went from 238 down to 185, his good cholesterol (HDL) increased, his bad cholesterol (LDL) was dramatically reduced and his triglycerides numbers plummeted.   Thinking he had discovered the answers to all the world health problems he went on a crusade to tell everyone about his new discovery.  During all the research and video watching, one night he awoke in the middle of the night and a very clear idea came into his mind and one he believes was divinely inspired.  The idea was for him to have a ministry called “WHOLLY YOURS, Body, Soul and Spirit” and over the next few nights, he was awakened and given more revelation, including an idea for a logo which is the logo used today.  He even went as far as purchasing a domain called wholly-yours.com  He kept embarking on the nutritional trail and figured he had mastered that enough to write about it, however, he realized he needed to write the portions on how to be whole in soul and spirit and he just couldn’t do it. 

 

So, as had happened many times in the past with his ideas, the ministry stopped there…….or so he thought.  Fast-forward to November 2019 when his sister, Mary Jane, forwarded him a YouTube video by Jentzen Franklin entitled “Purity”.  The night he watched that would forever change him and set in motion the “internal” change that was required to complete the soul and spirit portion.  As God often does, He reveals to us things early, and then we draw our own conclusions, which usually turn out to be wrong.  What Paul believed was a nutrition ministry turned out to be a ministry to teach others how to become whole in their entire being so they can not only give themselves wholly to Jesus but also wholly to others.  God had a lot of “spiritual” heart reconstruction to do in Paul to get him to the point he was able to do that,  but being the "Great Physician", He used the Holy Spirit to bring about the change required.  Through many changes and revelations, Paul has moved forward with the Wholly Yours Ministries as it exists today. 

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